Democratic Party of Portugal

The Democratic Party was a liberal political party in Portugal that was founded in 1910 as a successor of the Portuguese Republican Party. The Democratic Party succeeded the unionist splintergroup of the Republican Party, and it controlled its electoral and propagandistic structure, making it a powerful political entity. Democratic Party leader Afonso Costa managed to hold onto power despite suffering several monarchist and republican revolutionary attempts, and it would later fall victim to political, popular, and syndicalist opposition. The party disintegrated in the years following World War I, disbanding in 1926.